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been the worst spill the United States has seen since the Exxon-Valdes oil spill. The spill has caused both the ecosystem and the economy of the affected area to collapse, which will take years to regenerate…

learning skills. Doing so will present a stress-free environment that will help children improve academically and socially. “As of the 2007-2008 school year, 16.5% of all the public schools in the United States required students to wear uniforms” ("How Many Schools Require Uniforms?"). As the data states, there are barely any schools that make wearing…

Along with the students’ attitude and sense of pride increasing, wearing uniforms will allow students to focus more in their classes. The students and teachers will be able to focus more on their classes instead of what the students are wearing. Every day students walk into school worrying about whether or not their clothes look fashionable. People also get distracted by looking at other people’s clothing. Additionally, students arrive late to school because they are searching for clothes to…

Over the course of several years, the controversy of allowing dress codes in public schools has been the topic in several school districts. The school districts believe that a dress code will help students to focus more on their education, and the dress code will decrease the amount of inappropriate attire. Thus, the school desires to enforce a strict dress code to all the students in order to further the students’ knowledge and well-being. However, numerous people disagree with the schools…

In the news article Pros and Cons of School Dress Code by Scott Key published in the Fresno Pacific University Website; Key writes, “Dress code teach students that conformity and obedience to authority are important. Individuality is suppressed. Students voice is suppressed “ (Key n.pag.). Uniforms can in some form teach students more about conformity…

The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, from this ancient code we get the popular phrase “"An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." People have often used this phrase in order to justify their actions against a person who has wronged them or their loved ones. However, have you stopped to consider that an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind? Today I will be discussing the death penalty and why I believe it is time to get rid of it in the…

Think about this situation, you are at school and suddenly there is an earthquake tornado or some other natural disaster. Sadly most of the students are killed, later the parents are called in to help identify some of the remains. How are these parents going to figure out if this corpse is their child? Hmmm… maybe by what they saw their child walk out of the house in that morning, so uniforms actually could cause a problem instead of help fix them.      School uniforms…

connect the otherwise separated country by making travel substantially faster. Postal services also made use of the steam locomotive’s record travel speed by shipping letters and packages on trains. By 1840, there were 2,818 miles of track in the United States, and the number…

fashion show. Should students wear uniforms to manage equality, even if it destroys originality and individuality? If students wore uniforms to manage equality, abolishing originality and individuality makes the school secure. Modifying the dress code policy can have an outcome of students dropping out of school never receiving their education. The main audience of this issue are students, because school policies can support students logically and meaningfully. The viewpoints on this issue can…

personality. Doing so will show others our differentiates to everyone else. For the past decade students, parents, and teachers have been struggling about this topic. In half the schools the uniforms work very well, and in others not so much. Although dress codes and uniforms show it helps with grades, these uniforms shouldn’t be apart of school because it costs a lot, it doesn’t change the fact that kids would still bully each other 's appearances and it doesn’t show the students personality.…